Five game-changing ventures to showcase at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel on September 29th. Investors are invited to a Dorset Business Angels (DBA) pitch event featuring five innovative companies at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel on September 29th from 17.15, with investment opportunities ranging from £500,000 to £2.5 million across transformative sectors including sustainable agriculture, health diagnostics, […]
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) hosted a successful pitch event on Monday evening at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel, with three of the five presenting companies receiving expressions of interest from the 30+ attending angel investors, and continued engagement following the event. The event highlighted the continued appetite for innovative tech investments in the region, with AI […]
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) has launched a pilot Ambassador Programme an innovative initiative designed to strengthen the pipeline of investment-ready businesses in the region. The initiative aims to forge stronger connections between DBA and key business incubation partners, ensuring promising startups receive the guidance they need before seeking investment. “The pilot Ambassador Programme represents a […]
If you’re looking to get your start-up out of the blocks and running or moving to the next stage of your business’s development, you may be seeking additional and external funding to drive that growth. Securing angel investment could be a good option. An angel investor is someone who invests their own money in a […]
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) held their autumn pitch event in Bournemouth. 5 entrepreneurs pitched to investors with 3 of the pitching businesses securing investor interest on the evening. However, one business in the aviation & aerospace sector piqued a particularly high level of interest and impressively achieved their full funding ‘ask’ of £144,000 on the […]
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) will hold their first face to face Pitch Event for eighteen months on Monday evening October 4th. The event will take place at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel. Through their investment pitch events, DBA helps presenters raise equity capital from their investment members. Pitch events bring Investors and Entrepreneurs together to accelerate […]
The 3rd online Dorset Business Angels (DBA) pitch event of 2021 takes place on Monday 14th June. A medical innovation business which has developed a non-contacting solution for diagnostics is hoping to grab the attention of the Angels. In many areas of medicine and healthcare, it is necessary to either contact the patient or take […]
A Personal Safety Solutions business, whose service has been thrust into the limelight by a number of recent tragic events, is set to pitch to the Dorset Business Angels (DBA) at their 2nd pitch event of the year. Set for 26th April, the virtual event continues to attract an ever- growing number of attendees, with […]
Dorset Business Angels (DBA) held their first online quarterly pitch event in 2021, attracting a record number of some 59 attendees registered and 30 DBA members present. It also saw the introduction of a new polling system. 5 entrepreneurs pitched to the savvy investors and partners. Pitches were followed by a Q & A session, […]
The 1st Dorset Business Angels virtual pitch event of 2021 takes place on 1st February. Online pitch events in 2020 attracted a record number of attendees, with some 40 attendees at the previous event in October. A provider of online education will be one of the first up in a bid to seize the moment […]
Led by Creative England in partnership with the BFI and UKBAA, Evolve is a programme designed to build a connected ecosystem of investors in the UK’s innovative media and entertainment sectors. As part of Evolve, we are highlighting leading industry investors to help provide a bit of insight into what it looks like to invest in screen-based businesses. We sat down […]
As we are now in the run up to what will no doubt be a somewhat limited festive period for many and with the final throw of the dice on Brexit negotiations underway, this seems a good opportunity to reflect on the past year for our investment community. 2020 has brought many unexpected challenges for […]
